Soundbytes #008: FlashBlade 2.0 With Rob Lee at Pure Accelerate

In this podcast, recorded on 14th June 2017 at Pure Accelerate in San Francisco, Chris talks to Rob Lee, Chief Architect of the FlashBlade product line. FlashBlade 2.0 sees greater scalability for the product, but more interesting is the way in which companies have taken the platform and used it creatively to achieve things that weren’t possible with traditional NAS products.

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Timeline

00:00:00 – Introductions

00:01:30 – Extended architecture – 5x performance, 3x IOPS

00:02:00 – introduction of object storage support

00:02:30 – Hardware review

00:04:50 – Improvements through software

00:07:10 – Customer use cases – what are people doing with the technology?

00:13:30 – Being able to do something you couldn’t do previously

00:14:00 – Mercedes and the regulation of teraflops!

00:15:20 – Opportunities of the object storage market

00:18:30 – Roadmap- when will the new features be released?

You can view more details on FlashBlade on the Tech Field Day website, specifically covering the event with dedicated FlashBlade sessions.

Disclaimer: Chris was invited to the Pure Accelerate event, with Pure covering accommodation and travel costs. However there are no requirements to blog or otherwise produce media. Pure do not have rights of editorial before publication.